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Ngandong Tiger (Panthera Tigris soloensis)

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(02-27-2019, 07:20 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: Wonder what's the size of that tiger skull in the local museum?

That is the only complete skull known for the Ngandong tiger (as far I know, there is other fossil inthe Sangiran museum but is fragmentary), it measured 373 mm in greates length in "true" size but as you can see it is broken at the end. Koenigswald estimated that probably measured some 10 or 20 millimiters more, and using modern Java tigers as a surrogates, I calculate a greatest length of 386 mm "complete".

This is the original picture published by Koenigswald (and furnished by @tigerluver):

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Other picture of the skull, this time already in the museum:

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